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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...London developers are feeling nostalgic about the mid-'80s, when the economy was growing and money was flowing freely. Today real estate firms in Britain are confronting base interest rates of 14%, stagnant growth and a lingering hangover after years of overbuilding. Commercial rents in London, which reached about $130 per sq. ft. a year ago, have fallen nearly 25% since then. Chris Walls, a property analyst at Salomon Brothers in London, predicts that rents will decline to less than $100 per sq. ft. by the end of the year. The vacancy rate in central London is 11%, up from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtown Blues | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...taxes pledge. During the budget debacle, he revived the G.O.P.'s image as the party of the rich by demanding a capital-gains tax cut that would have mainly benefited those who earn more than $200,000 annually. He torpedoed the party's effort to expand its base by vetoing a civil rights bill that would have made it easier for women and minorities to prove job discrimination. He unleashed his truculent chief of staff, John Sununu, on congressional Republicans who opposed him. Last week he worked behind the scenes to fire Ed Rollins, co-chairman of the G.O.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perfect Spy | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...votes. Buffeted by a sagging farm economy and fascinated by the charismatic newcomer, enough Republicans crossed over to send Kerrey to the state house. Kerrey inherited a state debt of $24 million, which he attacked with budget cuts, a temporary new tax and a broadened tax base, "none of which was popular," he notes. After dating Winger several times (they met when she was on location in Nebraska for a movie), he moved her into the Governor's mansion and somehow his approval rating in staid Nebraska remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOB KERREY: A Senator Of Candor | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...actors are not enticed by the strange scenarios. Much to the audience's amusement--and unfortunately to Hulkower's, as well--the Director becomes more excited, vehement and base as the deadpan players continue to bumble his instructions...

Author: By Joe MARTIN Hill, | Title: How Patriarchy Came Tumbling Down | 10/26/1990 | See Source »

Claflin is dynamic in this role as he portrays the stringent authority of the church in conflict with his own base selfishness. Hulkower plays Man with a touch of psychosis, but this interpretation becomes remotely credible only when we discover "his problem...

Author: By Joe MARTIN Hill, | Title: How Patriarchy Came Tumbling Down | 10/26/1990 | See Source »

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